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Has the Communist Party USA Endorsed Hillary Clinton?7:00AM EDT 8/9/2016 Bob Eschliman
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Hillary Clinton has strong support from the Communist Party USA in her bid to win the White House. (Reuters photo)
Has the Communist Party USA endorsed Hillary Clinton, as headlines running throughout the conservative blogosphere have suggested this week?
The technical answer is no, it has not. It will not, however, push its own candidates in the November election, following a pattern it adopted in 2008 when President Barack Obama was running for office.
In other words, they're for anyone who doesn't have an "R" behind his or her name.
CPUSA National Chairman John Bachtell actually supported U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. But when it became obvious to everyone—except the Sanders supporters—that Hillary Clinton would be the Democrat nominee, he announced he would vote for her in the November election.
In June, he penned the following article for the CPUSA's official website:
http://www.charismanews.com/politics/elections/59135-has-the-communist-party-usa-endorsed-hillary-clinton